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Painting and poetry each have their own limits, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing argues, and this essay sets out where one art must stop and the other may go on. Lessing, the German critic and dramatist, takes the sculpture of Laocoon as his starting point and adds remarks on points in the history of ancient art.
Ellen Frothingham's English translation, in this Boston edition of 1890, keeps Lessing's quotations in their original languages, with translations in footnotes. The essay first appeared in 1766.
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- Author
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Reading time
- About 4 hours
- Pages
- 196
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Essays
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